cheezcake
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Some of the initial impressions on the story seem lukewarm at best as well though =/
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The Order 1886 | Impressions Thread of not shooting the messenger.
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Some of the initial impressions on the story seem lukewarm at best as well though =/
Imru al-Qays
Banned
Yeah, I could see being three or four hours off. I know that I wouldn't trust myself to accurately guess my playtime without the aid of an in-game clock if I hadn't been thinking about it ahead of time.
perineumlick
Member
Lol, I haven't even played it on my panny plasma yet; wifey's been marathoning House of Cards. Yeah, the visuals make you sit up and notice; definitely current gen's Gears of War moment where you experience graphics so far beyond what came before that it shocks you. The way everything looks so grounded; you don't see the usual "seams" that give away a video game. No ugly aliasing, no shimmering, the way light hits all the different materials. It's crazy.
Mr. Giggles
Member
Oh god, not this again.
Please stop pushing your preference as the status quo. If you don't like the gameplay fine, tons of people like cinematic games
That's all I'm going to say, I think debating you any further would be futile, as it seems you have your mind made up and have come to rain on the parade one last time.
travisbickle
Member
What about the "set-pieces"? Everyone's complaining about it being a short game but if it has good gameplay set-pieces I'll play it multiple times.
WordsintheWater
Member
Imru al-Qays;152416046 said:
I guess not, but don't you think after all this controversy came out they were paying attention to it. If I get this game early I'll keep a stopwatch handy just for all of you, but then again you guys probably won't believe me either way.
Just to reiterate I believe the 5.5 hours thing, but I also believe that it took the other gaffers longer than that, that's all.
MilkyJoe
Member
He's right though. Doesn't mean it's a bad thing. Ryse looked great, and personally I really liked it, but that's not to say it wasn't a showcase to sell/show off the system, The order is the same thing, a bit LTTP, but still the same thing. No need to get the arse.
Not every dev has the money or time Sony have given RAD and for most devs including RAD that time would be better used making more content than polishing what they do have to a sheen.
Mr. Giggles
Member
I agree that its a graphical showcase, I disagree that its a bad game because of it.
I take issue when being cinematic is automatically equatable to being bad.
At least, the polishing time erases all bugs.
This times a lot of games have been launched barely unplayable.
Well, time to lay back with the popcorn. This is gonna be one long movie.
Awesome... Is it a well spent, 3 hour long movie or a 1 hour & 45 minutes rip off?
Await your impressions.
MilkyJoe
Member
Dude, Ryse was getting 3/10 all over the shop, i liked it and that's all that matters to me. A wise man said don't believe something until you see it with your own eyes (or in this case play it with your own hands.. errr and eyes.. i guess..) A whole bunch of guys at my work think the big Lebowski is shit... go figure..
FeiRR
Banned
Sounds like you are a big EA and Ubisoft fan.
whynotboth.gif?
Mr. Giggles
Member
Agreed, You're right, I look forward to playing this game this friday.
A little OT, just watched that movie yesterday I can't believe I let that gem go unwatched for so long.... So many refrences suddenly make sense
MilkyJoe
Member
I'm not promising its good or bad mind, I haven't played it, I just mean horses for courses.
NicoLeNano
Neo Member
First french news paper "official" review from JeuxVideo magazine.
Translation :
Gameplay :
Very simple but efficient action scenes, a large amount of QTE and some poor sneaking levels.
Graphics :
Top notch textures, mind blowing effects and no transition between game and cinematics. Awesome.
Sound :
Really good ambiant score, good dialogs, and good feedback from the weapons.
Duration :
Almost 7 hours, without running, which is a bit short (knowing that cinematics is half the duration..).
Global :
A lovely object, between a movie and a game. Some can considers it half-win or half-fail, it is the way you love Videogames that will be decisive.
Translation :
Gameplay :
Very simple but efficient action scenes, a large amount of QTE and some poor sneaking levels.
Graphics :
Top notch textures, mind blowing effects and no transition between game and cinematics. Awesome.
Sound :
Really good ambiant score, good dialogs, and good feedback from the weapons.
Duration :
Almost 7 hours, without running, which is a bit short (knowing that cinematics is half the duration..).
Global :
A lovely object, between a movie and a game. Some can considers it half-win or half-fail, it is the way you love Videogames that will be decisive.
First french news paper "official" review from JeuxVideo magazine.
Translation :
Gameplay :
Very simple but efficient action scenes, a large amount of QTE and some poor sneaking levels.
Graphics :
Top notch textures, mind blowing effects and no transition between game and cinematics. Awesome.
Sound :
Really good ambiant score, good dialogs, and good feedback from the weapons.
Duration :
Almost 7 hours, without running, which is a bit short (knowing that cinematics is half the duration..).
Global :
A lovely object, between a movie and a game. Some can considers it half-win or half-fail, it is the way you love Videogames that will be decisive.
Are they sure they weren't speed-running it?
NicoLeNano
Neo Member
In the text, the guy talk about the awesome oppressive atmosphere, the successful relationship between the different characters and hope the universe will be used in future games..
I'm French. "half of that is movies" but you don't know if qte are movies for the review.
Can you please translate a couple of stuff you think is interesting? Negative and positive?
Briskly walking, atleast.
NicoLeNano
Neo Member
Azdoune : "d'autant que les cinématiques occupe la moitié du temps."
The Xtortionist
Member
J'ai édité.Azdoune : "d'autant que les cinématiques occupe la moitié du temps."
And for the record even the YouTube playthrough shows that sentence is wrong
NicoLeNano
Neo Member
Ricky_r : I cannot, I have not anymore the newspaper in my hands. But as far as i know, we will have a bunch of reviews in 4 ou 5 hours (end of the day, french-time).
Are QTE's considered movies in france? because i would guess when someone says "movies" they might actually mean "movies".
jellies_two
Member
i have been posting it will probably be 7 hours for most, since I looked at the trophies popping. Looks like its on the money.
it will probably be more for gaffers because we like to look at the details even the non interactive ones. That explains the posted impressions that it was 8 or 9 hours.
Yeah so the haters were banging on about 3 then 5 now 7, if it was 12 or 15 they would sub in black bars or qte or something else for their main complaint.
it will probably be more for gaffers because we like to look at the details even the non interactive ones. That explains the posted impressions that it was 8 or 9 hours.
Yeah so the haters were banging on about 3 then 5 now 7, if it was 12 or 15 they would sub in black bars or qte or something else for their main complaint.
NicoLeNano
Neo Member
I am quite sure that the reviewer want to say that QTE are part of the "movies"...
I've seen a lot of review for heavy rain said that was a movie. (go see the review by gamekult.fr)
FeiRR
Banned
Sounds about right for a first attempt of a studio at a new IP and platform. Thanks for sharing, can't wait for Friday.
Seven seems pretty short still. Anyways, length doesn't really bother me, its more the impressions that say it isn't anything special.
The review call the order "un bien bel objet". It's a compliment. If you like the order or not it's your vision of video games. What do you expect?
And it seems honest.
Unless its from the same guy doing this review, im not sure whats your point.
Thing is, it doesnt matter if QTE's are movies or not, if half of those 7 hours are made up of QTE's and movies, then 3.5 hours of actual cover based shooting and exploring is quite low.
If you think qte isn't game, so it's short. If you think you're playing during a qte it's honest.
Like the reviewer said, you're point of view for the order will depend of your video games vision.
FeiRR
Banned
I'll tell you a terrible secret: all Telltale games are 80% QTE and cutscenes. Even shooting is QTE in them. How can they still exist? Abomination!
Thank you. exactly what I'm trying to say.
Telltale games dont sell for 70 euros... i bet people would be screaming bloody murder if they did.
That's cool, thanks.
Wow, thanks. Listening to it as I write.
In the end you get 7 hours of content (referring to the review, or more or less hours according to gaf members and the YouTube playthrough).
If these hours are enough to justify your purchase of 60$ is up to you.
The game is still what it was advertised as: a product which tries to blend cinematics and gameplay.
Like the reviewer set whether you like this game or not will depend on what you expect in a video game.
If it takes around 7 hours for me thats fine, because that's what most TPS games have took me and I don't mind watching a few more cutscenes. (This is just my opinion obviously).
If these hours are enough to justify your purchase of 60$ is up to you.
The game is still what it was advertised as: a product which tries to blend cinematics and gameplay.
Like the reviewer set whether you like this game or not will depend on what you expect in a video game.
If it takes around 7 hours for me thats fine, because that's what most TPS games have took me and I don't mind watching a few more cutscenes. (This is just my opinion obviously).
fuzzyreactor
Banned
As much as I was looking forward to this game I think I'm going to pass. Just not enough content for the price